Roberts Wesleyan College to celebrate winter commencement

Tuesday

Dec 5, 2017 at 2:10 PMDec 5, 2017 at 2:10 PM

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Roberts Wesleyan College, 2301 Westside Drive, Rochester, will celebrate its winter commencement at 10 a.m. on Dec. 16 in the Andrews B. Hale Auditorium. Nearly 150 students will receive undergraduate and graduate degrees. “We are thrilled to celebrate the graduation of our students and their successful completion of their degree programs,” President Deana Porterfield said. “We are confident that, as they begin their next chapter, they will utilize their Roberts education for the improvement of not only their own careers, but also for the good of their communities, neighborhoods and workplaces. Our graduates have been transformed by learning to connect their heads to their hearts and engage their hands in service to others.”The Rev. Dr. Marlowe Washington, adjunct professor of religion at Roberts Wesleyan, will serve as keynote speaker. He is the lead pastor at The Historic Parsells Church in Rochester.The Bronx native brings over two decades of pastoral experience as well as a personal experience of poverty. He attended the public school system in New York City, and graduated from St. Francis College in Brooklyn with a bachelor’s degree in political science. He attended New York Theological Seminary in Manhattan, where he received his Master of Divinity, and most recently received a doctorate in transformational leadership from Northeastern Seminary in 2016 on “The insidious nature of urban poverty and the recovery of the progressive mission of the black church.”Visit roberts.edu/commencement for information.